Tool link: https://uflyy.github.io/global-tourism-flow/

This interactive analytical platform serves as a high-fidelity visualization tool for examining the complex dynamics of global tourism flows. The tool allows researchers and practitioners to explore bilateral tourism interactions through both spatial flow maps and regional intensity choropleths. At its core, the system quantifies “World Flatness” by calculating the elasticity of cultural distance, incorporating Hofstede, World Values Survey, and Schwartz frameworks, to demonstrate how technological and economic globalization have mitigated historical barriers to international travel. Users can simulate temporal shifts, analyze geographic friction, and identify proximal cultural markets, transforming abstract statistical data into an intuitive, evidence-based dashboard for strategic tourism intelligence.